Apr 27, 2006 - Sale 2077

Sale 2077 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 920
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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MEDICINE.) SPAULDING, LYMAN. Autograph Letter Signed, to Dr. Levi Bartlett, concerning the use of scuttellaria laterifoli in treating hydrophobia resulting from rabies. Written on the blank pages of a 15 May 1819 circular from the New York College of Physicians, listing the courses and requirements for the semester. The letter, 3 pages, folded 4to sheet. New York, 8 August 1819
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with--A printed 3-page circular signed in print by Spaulding and others, the proposal to publish a Pharmacopoeia of the United States. New York, 4 March 1818.
Spaulding (1775-1821) American physician, served as President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of the State of New York. Besides being influential in publishing the above Pharmacopoeia, he published several papers on yellow fever and was an early suppporter of the use of vaccinations to prevent small pox.